Global Knowledge Exchange Network

Overview

Global Knowledge Exchange Network

Mission:

To improve health and the value of healthcare by comparing and contrasting key drivers and approaches to addressing healthcare costs and outcomes across the globe, with a goal of identifying and promoting successful, relevant, and replicable strategies.

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GKEN and meeting the global health crisis

 Globally, nations are faced with a

health care crisis

: rising healthcare costs that threaten system sustainability, human resource shortages, increasingly frustrated consumers, and an absence of shared solutions and cross-country communications.

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GKEN

believes the best way to meet these global health challenges is:

Better identification of new and emerging “better practices,” and stronger cross-border and cross cultural promotion and dissemination

of better healthcare system practices, utilizing traditional and non-traditional channels.

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What is GKEN?

The Global Knowledge Exchange on Healthcare (GKEN) is a not for profit international organization Founded in 2008 GKEN has 50 Delegates from ten countries committed to sharing and exchanging knowledge on ways to improve health outcomes and reduce cost. We are a global intellectual talent pool that can be deployed to support organizations wanting to learn about emerging better practices in healthcare from experts in varied sectors; health systems, hospital systems, payers, insurers, health plans, academia, consumer and government purchasers.

GKEN expertise

Our forums are comprised of Delegates who are chief executive officers, medical directors, human Resource executives, Physicians, professors and Senior government and corporate executives from Asian, European and US governments and private sectors. We support your objectives by tailoring our Delegates expertise; creating advisory panels, study tours and/or work groups at a high level that work to inform your executives on how other countries effectively manage their health system challenges.

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GKEN Delegates Expertise

Health system issues

Meng Kin LIM

, Professor, National University of Singapore

Chris Mc Swain

, Director Global Benefits, Whirlpool Corp., US

Jim Parker

, Former Chief of Staff to the President Wellpoint, US

Colleen Conway-Welch

, Professor & Dean, Vanderbilt University, School of Nursing, US

Shane Solomon

, Chief Executive, Hong Kong Hospital Authority, China

Mike Taylor

, former Principal Towers Perrin, US

Public Policy issues

Pere Ibern,

Professor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain

Mike O’ Grady

, Sr. Fellow, National Opinion Research Center, U. Chicago; Principal, O'Grady Health Policy, LLC, US

Neil Trautwein

, Vice President, Nat’l Retail Federation, US

Johan Hjertqvist ,

President, Stockholm Network and Health Consumer Powerhouse, Sweden

Murray Ross

, VP, Kaiser Foundation Health Plan; Director, Kaiser Institute for Health Policy, US

Barbara Safriet

, former Assoc. Dean for Academic Affairs & Lecturer on Law, Yale law School, US

Michael Showalter

, SVP, HealthCare Strategy & Marketing, CIGNA HealthCare, US Russ Bantham, President, Bantham Consulting, Former General Counsel to PhRMA, US

Social marketing issues

Massimo Vergnano

, CEO, Multimedia Systems International/Argon Global Healthcare, Italy

Marty Davis,

Founder & President Applied Communications Institute, Former Dir., Special Campaigns & Promotions, AARP, US

LaMar McGinnis

, Clinical Prof. of Surgery, Emory Univ.; Past Pres., American Cancer Society, US

Tommy Hutchinson

, President I – Genius, UK

Health Promotion issues

Wolf Kirsten

, Founder and President of International Health Consulting, Germany

Beverly Malone

, CEO, National League for Nursing, US

Delon Human

, Pres., Health Diplomats, Immediate Past Pres. World Medical Association, Switzerland Note:

(partial list)

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GKEN Programs

Advisory panels: GKEN identifies and assembles experts across the health and business spectrum who offer their insights and unique knowledge to help shape strategy.

Study Tours: GKEN tailors study tours to meet different topical interests and needs, for example, cost containment, quality, workplace wellness and health promotion, outcomes improvement, business development and innovation, systems design and integration. Research: GKEN conducts market intelligence, environmental scans, and literature reviews.

Seminars: GKEN develops topical seminars to explore solutions to challenges in different markets, and within different public policy environments.

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GKEN

Contact

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To learn more about opportunities to work with GKEN, see our web site at www.GKEN.org

or contact Jon Comola at [email protected]

or by telephone, 512 472 2005 US.

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